Non Narritive film Flashcards
(12 cards)
Documentry
Claims to present factual information
Mockumentaries
fiction films that adopt the style and conventions of documentaries
Experimental film
Can be fictional or factual or a combination
Experimental challenges filmmaking conventions challenge what mainstream depict and often reflects upon the nature of cinema
Voice of God documentary
Guides viewer with voice over narration
Observational documentary
Assume fly on wall perspective with no narration
Presenter Documentary
Director appears in voice over and interviewing subjects
Associative editing
Rather than continuity editing , shots connect on visual and thematic association
Poetic Strain
Film creates visual poem
Minimal strain
Films that engage in a modernist examination of the film medium itself
Assembelance strain
Films that are constructed from found footage and are assembled together
Political avant-garde strain
Films that are politically engaged, often in relation to identity politics, and adopt any or a combination of the above modes
Koyaanasqatsi
The meaning of the images are mediated by music instead of words
Soundtrack relies on the score to comment on the images rather than voice over narrative
Sequence can be known as mood poems
Opening and closing shot of rocket and rocket exploding trajectory of modernity and escaping nature will blow up in our face